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What's next for affordable housing in 2024?

BD+C

The urban core is a big focus of development, though there is also clear interest in surrounding neighborhoods. Photo © Ryan Kurtz, courtesy GBBN Architects For designers and developers, this means recognizing opportunities in affordable housing to center people’s needs holistically while responding to the local history, culture, and climate.

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Reinvestment without displacement: North Avenue Market

Community Architect Daily

But not all has been going smoothly in Station North which makes an investment model developed by the Central Baltimore Partnership (CBP) especially interesting. In 2008, a $1 million initiative to restore the building as an “arts-focused mix of shops, eateries, and offices” was launched. as partners. as partners.

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Most new condominiums are not owner-occupied — is that actually a bad thing?

Brandon Donnelly

Now, the premise of Jeremy’s tweet storm is that non-owner-occupied housing is bad and that the government should be doing more to discourage this. The lender requirement to pre-sell suites in order to obtain construction financing means that developers rely heavily on buyers who are willing to purchase many many years before occupancy.

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HOK Architects: Architecture Office News

e-architect

Internationally, his projects included 7 million square feet of development within the New Songdo City Development in Incheon, Korea, and the Brigade Gateway mixed-use development in Bangalore, India. Coworking is one of the fastest-growing sectors of the commercial real estate market. Louis studio.

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Event: Building Socially Sustainable Communities: Bridging the Divide at Essex Crossing

Bustler

HSW REGISTER HERE: [link] Every community should have an opportunity to develop a collective vision to shape its future. Often, the process of urban redevelopment can be polarizing, with community stakeholders and private developers entrenched in opposition and design professionals acting as an ally to one or as a mediator between both.

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Are Private Partnerships the Best Way to Rebuild Public Housing?

Dwell

The problem of America’s legacy public housing—the million-odd units built by the federal government between the end of the Second World and the early 1970s—represents one of the most challenging issues facing the country’s affordable housing future.

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Banking on Borrowed Land

Landscape Architecture Magazine

Land banks and land trusts have overlapping missions—stewarding land—but different frameworks and financing. They start with the benefits of their highly people-adjacent land holdings and work outward—with more consideration for land as an economic development tool than as an ecological resource. Photo by Grounded Strategies.